[TechRepublic] The smartphone-as-PC era has begun

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Motorola Atrix review: The beginning of the smartphone-as-PC The Motorola Atrix establishes four new breakthroughs in smartphone experience. See what they are and how well its Webtop software measures up in creating a desktop-like environment. Read more Motorola Atrix photos: The docking smartphone Resource of the day How to Start a Remote Work Program Where are your employees? They're working at home, at client offices, in coffee shops, even across the globe. Get practical tips for starting a telework program and learn best practices for managing a workforce you can't see. More from TechRepublic   Penultimate for iPad: A must for IT professionals Erik Eckel recommends a simple and low-cost tool for consistently collecting notes, creating drawings, and making diagrams that can be printed, emailed, and saved as PDF files. Read more Are managers who know how to do the work their team is doing better managers? Good managers know how to lead their staffs even if they can't do the grunt work. Read more Poll: Have you tried cloud development? Even though Justin James has mixed feelings about cloud development, he recently tried Windows Azure. Take the poll to let us know if you've tried cloud development. Read more Quick Tip: Shrink the size used by Windows 7 System Restore Jack Wallen shows you how to shrink the maximum size allowed for system restore, so you can get back space on a hard drive, when space is at a premium. Read more Guns, babes, and rootkits: A Windows guru writes a thriller Microsoft's Mark Russinovich released his first novel, a thriller based on a zero-day attack. Mark Underwood reviews the novel and the security tech featured in it. Read more News from ZDNet   Cisco finally wakes up Cisco finally gets their focus back and can concentrate on their core datacenter strengths Read more Lenovo reportedly planning 23-inch tablet for this year (updated) Do you wish the 10.1-inch Lenovo LePad was just a bit bigger? Would a 23-inch tablet do the trick? Read more Lenovo's 23-inch tablet this year? Company says no way Lenovo: "As you know, it is usually not Lenovo's practice to talk about unannounced products, but in this case I will tell you that we have no plans to introduce a 23-inch tablet." Read more T-Mobile intros new unlimited calling, texting and data plan T-Mobile USA is trying to outscore AT&T and Verizon with a brand new unlimited calling, texting and data plan. Read more Toshiba unloads Tecra, Portege ultra-slim laptops with Sandy Bridge CPUs Toshiba has rolled out several new notebooks under the Tecra and Portege brands, which happen to be "the thinnest Toshiba business laptops ever made." Read more Riverbed allays growth concerns, rides WAN optimization wave Riverbed is off to a strong start for 2011 and the first quarter is shaping up to ahead of expectations as customers race to optimize their networks. Read more HP's WebOS tablet: How much developer support is really needed? Hewlett-Packard's WebOS 3.0 beta 1 has been outed and by most accounts TouchPad looks very interesting. The conventional wisdom is that HP will have trouble because of third party app support. Maybe. Read more HP brings workstation-class PCs to a thin client world I've been preaching the thin client gospel for a long time, but HPs new entry-level workstations make an easy choice for media, science, and engineering labs in K12 and higher education settings. Read more Internet ads creep up on TV, total $26 billion in sales for 2010 Internet advertising revenue for 2010 was $26 billion, up 15 percent from a year ago. Of that tally, mobile was a small, but growing chunk with $550 million to $650 million in sales. Overall,... Read more Gartner: 91% of enterprise architecture efforts don't involve business collaboration Enterprise architecture is supposed to be all about IT-business collaboration. At least one analyst says this has yet to happen in a big way. Read more Twenty Years of Linux according to Linus Torvalds In an interview, Linus Torvalds talks about Linux's multiple 20th birthdays and life with Linux. Read more Tech industry vows to triple electronic waste collection (Updated to include Basel Action Network commentWhen I glanced out my home office window on Monday morning this week, I noticed an old television out by the curb along with my neighbor's... Read more Another reason to eat those leafy greens We techies often list vision loss as a major worry since so much of our time is spent staring at displays. 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